Welcome to the Sunday evening open thread.
I spent most of this week in Chicago on a business trip. Only my second time there, and my first time in the downtown core – and what a beautiful downtown it is. The river, the lake, the Magnificent Mile, Millennium Park… and perfect weather to boot.
The week that was:
RIP to Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon in July 1969. I was pretty wee then, but I still remember watching the first moon walk.
More tragic gun violence made even more tragic by the shooting of innocent bystanders - probably by police - in New York.
The US Government may have lied about the real number of civilian deaths in Pakistan from drone attacks. I'm shocked, I tells ya, shocked.
The UN/Iran nuclear talks have broken up. At the same time, Iran has shrouded a suspected nuclear site so that it can no longer be monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Where have we heard stuff like this before? Plus, this. Sigh.
Thirty years later and they're still playing "whodunit" over Natalie Wood's death.
Mark Sanford (remember him?) is getting married. Awwwww. I just love a happy ending.
Three cheers for Nikola Tesla, and kudos to The Oatmeal for Operation Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum, which is reportedly nearing its fundraising goal. Awesome.
And how was YOUR week?
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Sorry to be a tad tardy with this....
Time flies when you're assembling IKEA furniture.
the government has ways of making the math work
if more civilians died in Pakistan then they were terrorists or militants or terrorist/militant sympathizers.
After all, look at how much ...
... negative emotions against the US were expressed by mourners at their funerals ... its an obvious inference that they were hanging with terraistical sympathizers and such.
So you're saying that time flies when you're having fun? ;)
FSM, all the drama with Sanford, the wasted thousands of hours spent on his crap, and it was helpful to The People how?
So we have a weak person who was elevated to an important position. I never tire of hearing that story with our politicians whom we should be "respectful" to ;( Bleh.
I would not call
assembling IKEA furniture "fun", per se. However, now that I've gotten the job done, I'm ridiculously proud of myself. I am NOT mechanically inclined so it took me most of the day to accomplish this (to me) Herculean task.
Good for you, seriously.
I couldn't do it. My brain freezes up while reading directions with an accompanying diagram. I have no explanation for that.
Surprisingly, for me anyway, my aunt purchased
an entertainment center, not particularly big, from Ikea and paid to have it delivered and assembled on site. She told me the "guy" was there for seven hours. (Surprised about the time, not the fact that my aunt bought an entertainment center)
So... if the "guy" who supposedly was the expert at this took seven hours, then hell yes, you should be proud of yourself. (Granted, not the same size furniture, but still... seven hours?)
Iran and the NeoCons
Read this article today that shows that there are still those that think war is the answer and those that get punished for foiling their plans.
Sunk
Another view from Juan Cole
Plot to Provoke war with Iran thwarted by Navy analyst
Sobering
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I feel sad about Armstrong
Not personal really but what he represented. I always felt a generational/historical connection to him. My mother may have been mild-psychotic and prone to forgetting my existence, but she had foresight. When I was younger than 8, well before Kennedy and the space program, we stood outside looking at the moon and she said, "You could be the first person to walk on the moon." She was off by only a few years--I was perhaps ten years too young.
good evening! so this is what we're looking...
forward to this week. / snark:
the brown dot is lake borgne, the red dot is lake ponchartrain, the green dot is lake maurepas, and we're at the eastern edge of the blue dot... for scale, we're 50 miles from NOLA and 40 miles from Baton Rouge.
we're now under hurricane warning.... hopefully we won't lose power...